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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Active Window" vs "Current Screen"- Stupid Newb Question
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2014, 10:14 AM »
Welcome to the site Zirconia  :Thmbsup:

I hope Screenshot Captor suits your needs -- if not, hopefully the forum can still be useful to you -- we are a friendly bunch.

You've asked a few different questions, let's see how many we can answer.

The easy ones first:  If you want Screenshot Captor to take a picture and just shove it in a folder without any further input, then you'll want to change the option for what Screenshot Captor does after a capture.  It will always save it in a folder, but by default after a capture it pops up a window asking you what you want to do.  I'm like you I don't need that pop-up post-capture dialog.

So the next time that post-capture popup comes up after a capture, look for the option on the very bottom that says "After next capture:" and choose "Stay Minimized in Tray".  That will solve that.  Then just open the Screenshot Captor window from the system tray when you want to view your captured screenshots.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Best way to crop an image with uneven boundarys
« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2014, 09:57 AM »
Well, you almost figured it out.

  • Use Magic Wand to select the background white area (either Magic Wand Flood Fill or Global Magic Wand).
  • This will select the background area as you point out.
  • Then in the Edit menu, choose Select -> Invert Selection (or just hit Ctrl+I).  That will select the scroll itself.
  • Now you can use the crop command/button to delete the background, as you want.


Having said this -- remember that SC is not meant to be a full featured paint/photo manipulation program, and you will find more powerful features in the big image editing tools (like the Gimp, Paint.net, RealWorld Paint, etc.), and remember that SC is very happy to let you configure it to invoke them to do editing on an image, and will automatically reload files after they are changed by an image editor -- so it makes it really easy to use in conjunction with such tools.  And if you do a lot of background removal, there are special tools for that too (i think there is a thread on that as well).
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Screenshot Captor / Re: How do I collect a bunch of small captures in one file
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2014, 04:49 PM »
Ok so, you can use SC to capture lots of images quickly (you may want to set the option for what to do after next capture to "stay minimized" so that it stays out of your way while you do).

Then the main SC interface itself will let you view all of your capture and quickly select and annotate them.

Now the last step, combining the images all on one page, you need a separate program for that (at least for now).  However I have a good easy free one to recommend, ImageGrid, written by a member of this forum.  You can download ImageGrid here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=29464.0
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2014, 02:16 PM »
road trips: nice.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: wrong license key message
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2014, 01:51 PM »
Yes that happens too.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: wrong license key message
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2014, 01:03 PM »
So someone only gets an all-inclusive key if they donate?   tellme  Didn't know there were different types.

Yes.  If you donate you get a single key that works on all apps.
But the free license keys are specific to a specific program, so you have to download a different key for each program.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: wrong license key message
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2014, 12:44 PM »
With the free license keys, this mostly happens when you click to download the wrong link. Each link on the free license key download page is for a different program.  Try getting the key again, and if you still have trouble, email me and I'll assist ([email protected]).
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2014, 06:17 PM »
The bird present one made me laugh out loud.
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Living Room / Re: A three drive system - the sweet spot
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2014, 02:41 AM »
I've never really considered quality of power supply.

Does a normal consumer-grade UPS help with this kind of thing?
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Feature Request
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2014, 04:01 PM »
Yes, I've been meaning to add this -- it's on my todo list and i'll see if i can't get it in the next version.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone can recommend a good macro recorder for windows please?
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2014, 03:32 PM »
http://www.raymond.c...rform-tasks-for-you/
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Living Room / Re: A three drive system - the sweet spot
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2014, 08:42 AM »
What are drive image backups doing staying on the PC itself?


I agree they should be kept on external drives for the most part -- though it's nice to be able to store copies on a local drive too.  Redundancy is the name of the game.

Don't forget you want backups not just on external drives, but offsite -- someplace that wouldn't be lost if your house burned down or was robbed.
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Living Room / Re: A three drive system - the sweet spot
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2014, 10:20 AM »
Lightning fast boot times might - well yeah okay they are - be important for laptops and tablets. But for a desktop that has a much longer typical running cycle the extra 30 seconds is really that big a deal. The same thing could also be applied to application load times, laptop/tablet...gotts to be zippy ... Desktop...not so much.

I can't really disagree with the logic of this.. In fact we should say that even for laptops, most people, most of the time, will be waking from sleep, which is extremely fast on Windows these days, and involves little drive activity.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQ: HTPC Util - Hide Desktop for x seconds while program is being executed.
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 08:00 PM »
Nice.  Will the new window get focus, or might that be a feature to add?
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Living Room / Re: A three drive system - the sweet spot
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 07:39 PM »
Is there any guide somewhere on how to configure the temp and log files to put them on another drive?
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: cyrillic font symbols are contorted when pasted into the target app's window
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 04:59 PM »
Let me look into that -- if the clips are showing right in the grid, then it should be fixable..
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hacking should be about making things
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 04:26 PM »
The Drew Crawford post looks like a great read, thanks for sharing that.
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Living Room / A three drive system - the sweet spot
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 02:57 PM »
We've talked about this before, but as I have a relatively new pc setup, I thought it was worth revisiting the idea of having multiple hard drives, for those who haven't yet caught on to the greatness of it.

This is mainly for heavy computer users -- more casual users do not need to worry about such stuff.

Three Drives are better than one:

  • The first hard drive (C) on the computer should be an SSD.  These are super fast, and affordable when the sizes are small (250 gb or so).  This will be your Operating System drive and where (most of) your program files get installed.  My philosophy is that this drive is too small to hold everything, and too unreliable to hold your documents.
  • The second hard drive (D) will be a giant one.  2TB at least.  (Almost) everything else goes on this drive -- including your large virtual machines, a giant directory for drive image backups, all downloads, any giant game installations, etc.  You want it large enough that you always have plenty of free space. Drive speed is usually not an issue on for this drive.
  • The third hard drive (E) is for your documents and settings.  Now this might be where some people disagree with me, and only use two hard drives, and put their documents on their SECOND hard drive.  After all there should be plenty of space on the second drive.  But having a dedicated SMALLER drive for your documents has some advantages.  For example, you can backup from your documents drive to your second (big) drive, offering real redundancy to hardware failure.  The document drive is also small enough that you could RAID mirror it, and/or full drive image it frequently.

The "fourth" hard drive:

In addition to these, you will want either an external sata hard drive dock, or an internal sata drive rack that will allow you to easily attach and remove additional hard drives for the purposes of backing up to a drive you can store on the shelf.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 02:28 PM »
Which pet should you get:

http://www.collegehu...h-pet-should-you-get

whichpetsmall.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 02:23 PM »
Magic for dogs:
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 02:13 PM »
While it can be played solo for practice, it is joyless and pointless to play solo.
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 02:12 PM »
have to disagree with your reading it as a comedy.  I love those fake comedy documentaries (This is Spinal Tap remains the pinnacle of the genre).  This movie may have been funny to you but I don't think there's a chance in hell the film makers intended it as a comedy.
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 01:43 PM »
On the positive side, I'd have to say that it was far better in almost every respect (acting, story, pacing, etc.), than most low budget movies.  And far less irritating in it's implausibility than most hollywood blockbusters.  And actually overall I thought the acting of the non-main characters was pretty damn good.  There is a long middle part that is almost like a documentary, which I thought was really quite well done and "felt" right in terms of tone and acting (a serious accomplishment given how silly the fake science was).

I would absolutely give this team a big budget movie deal, and trade them in a heartbeat for the baffoons that have been creating some of the recent hollywood action blockbusters.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 08:44 AM »
Some more great ones  :Thmbsup:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab Polygon Region and Grab Repeat Last
« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 01:43 AM »
I'm afraid it's not currently possible.
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